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Adrian Mourby reveals the thinking behind the new Turks exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Rhoads Murphey reflects on a thousand years of Turkic cultural development.

Judy Urquhart recalls a forgotten use of Colditz Castle after the end of the Second World War – as a prison for German aristocrats.

Robin Milner-Gulland reviews a new title which explores the history, cultures, and politics of the Black Sea area.

Julie Rugg reports on recent research done into official attitudes towards burial during the Blitz.

Tamerlane, or Timur, one of history's most brutal butchers, died on 18 February 1405.

Bernhard Rieger considers how luxury liners became icons of modernity and national pride in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole.

The meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire were held on 2 February 1555.

Phil Reed, Director of the new Churchill Museum, gives a personal insight into the development of the new museum housed in the Cabinet War Rooms, which opens to the public this month.